Friday, July 8, 2011

As Cece left her office on Friday afternoon, she was later leaving than usual and was faced with rush hour traffic in the city. What to do? She contemplated the various routes she could take home. Too much traffic. Too much construction. That road is a parking lot at this hour. So, she finally settled on going home the scenic route on Rio Grande Blvd....much slower, but more restful.

As she drove north on Rio Grande, as she approached Matthew and the COOP, she noticed a little boy half in the road, lying on his back with his bike flattened out alongside him. Was he hit by a car? The little boy was not moving. Cece called 911 and reported this and worked to turn her car around given the median in the middle of the road.

Once on the scene she saw the boy move and sit up. She got out of her car and spoke to the boy. He wanted water. Cece only had hot water in her camel back bottle in her car. But, he said he wanted that. It turned out that this was Johnny. He looked about 9 years old, but he was a 17 year old boy with spina bifida. As they waited for the paramedics and his auntie to come, she discovered that he had not eaten and had had nothing to drink as he rode his bike in the 97 degree heat in Albuquerque in the late afternoon sun. His eyes were bleary and not well focused and he poured water over his head. The paramedics arrived and it turned out that he was exhausted and dehydrated and had heat stroke and had collapsed on the road because he just could not go on to get home.

Cece will never forget her ride in the Moab Century Tour last year when it was 96 degrees and there was no more water on the course with 20 miles to go on the ride back in to the finish. It was extremely difficult riding and many went down.

This is a good reminder to ride early in the morning if possible when there is this type of heat...to eat and hydrate well and be prepared with more water than you think you will need.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Can you guess whose legs these are? The other morning when we met, we asked this man on a commuter bike to take a pic of us and he asked us if we wanted the sexy legs in the pic. Cece told him "just the boobs" and off we went! But today, Cece herself took the legs!

This reminded her of another "leg shot" that was taken pre-century ride when we all decided to wear stillettos or as high as we could for a poignant leg shot!.

And this remidned her of another leg shot that was taken pre-triathlon in Santa Fe.

Anyway, this am we took another picture too. Ellie and Stephanie did a long climbing route and Cece and Jamey did a casual talk and bond ride with a few hills thrown in for good measure. The friends all met togehter at first then the groups split. What fun!

Here is the perfect triathlon team!The Shark will need more coffee though!

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"Above all else, do NOT quit! The universe always bows to persistence. The empowering approach is to see your physical challenges as assets, because overcoming obstacles forces you to develop discipline, determination and character. These traits will carry over to other areas of your life and make you a stronger person."

Tom Venuto, "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle."

"Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." Thomas Huxley